The next 25, 26 and 27 May GAMeC — Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo will act as a meeting place for young curators from around the world with the third edition of Qui. Enter Atlas – International Symposium of Emerging Curators. The gathering will come to a close on Wednesday 27 May at 6.30 pm with the Award Ceremony for the Lorenzo Bonaldi Award for Art – EnterPrize and with the opening of two solo shows: Studio A: Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures (2008 – ongoing) by Tris Vonna-Michell, and Ocular Gymnastics by Meris Angioletti, both curated by Alessandro Rabottini. 25 — 26 — 27 May QUI. ENTER ATLAS — International Symposium for Emerging Curators, III edition The Symposium is an event offering a moment for discussion and comparison designed to accompany the competition resulting in the Lorenzo Bonaldi Award for Art — EnterPrize. For the 2009 edition, the two curators of the symposium, Jörg Heiser and Alessandro Rabottini invited 10 curators under 35 from around the world who, together with the 5 candidates for the Bonaldi Award, would discuss the theme “The end of the global curator”. Panelists: Richard Birkett, Lorenzo Bruni, Carson Chan, Áron Fenyvesi, Christophe Gallois, Yoann Gourmel & Elodie Royer, Matthew Hyland, Shahira Issa, Mia Jankowicz, Graciela Kasep, Yinghua Lu, Mihnea Mircan, Caterina Riva Pieternel Vermoortel, Bart van der Heide, Raluca Voinea. 27 May, 6.30 pm Lorenzo Bonaldi Award for Art – EnterPrize, V edition Award Ceremony The goal of this award, unique in its genre, is to support the research of a young curator who is under thirty years old and his or her exhibition project. The 5 short-listed and their advisors: Áron Fenyvesi — selected by Zsolt Petrányi, Director, Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest Yoann Gourmel & Elodie Royer — selected by Florence Derieux, Director, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne Matthew Hyland — selected by Gregory Burke, Director, The Power Plant, Toronto Shahira Issa — selected by Suzanne Cotter, Curator at Large Modern Art, Oxford Graciela Kasep — selected by Ramiro Martínez Estrada, Director, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City Jury members: Iwona Blazwick, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London Rein Wolfs, Artistic Director, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Director, GAMeC, Bergamo 27 May, 7.30 pm Openings of the exhibitions Eldorado: Tris Vonna-Michell — Studio A: Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures (2008 – ongoing) 28.05.09 / 26.07.09 The show is part of GAMeC’s program Eldorado that is dedicated to the most interesting emerging artists on the international scene. The title of the exhibition indicates that it consists of two installations that converge in a single, complex construction made of voices, stories and images hailing from very different places and times. The starting point is Studio A, an installation previously presented at the Berlin Biennial in 2008 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit in 2009. Here it is proposed in a new version created for GAMeC’s spaces and, on this occasion, it is interwoven with the original work Monumental Detours/ Insignificant Fixtures. The show is part of a series created in honour of Arturo Toffetti. With the support from the British Council. Meris Angioletti — Ocular Gymnastics 28.05.09 / 26.07.09 GAMeC presents Ocular Gymnastics, the first solo show of the artist Meris Angioletti in an Italian museum. The entire exhibition — composed of three works all created expressly for GAMeC – is an exploration of the mechanisms of memory, from purely mnemonic information to imaginative aspects related to literary fiction and performance. With thanks to: Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno. For more information: http://www.gamec.it GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo Via S. Tomaso, 53 24121 Bergamo – Italy Tel +39 035 270272 Fax +39 035 236962 Opening hours From Tuesday to Sunday 11am – 7pm / Thursday 11am – 10pm / Monday Closed Press Office Elena Bari – e-mail: elena.bari@gamec.it – Mobile: +39 3289781241